Monsta wrote:I've managed to somewhat improve font quality with a simple script which I've posted here. Need a few testers now to confirm it works not only for me.

I reverted back to my original /etc/fonts, ensured that it still gave me poor rendering, ran your script and now the fonts render the same as they did when I replaced /etc/fonts with the ubuntu package. Decent rendering. I have Subpixel enabled in my smooth font rendering settings and Slight enabled in Hinting settings of Appearance Preferences/Fonts. Works to my liking. I'll probably just keep it this way.

This sure does make me wonder why Debian can't just up a do this rather than keep settling for crap font display for years. ???????

I appreciate your little script and I get to keep 2.9.0-6 by using it. If I run into any difficulties I will let you know. As of right now, it's just fine.

LexMK wrote:I have the regular LMDE, using the default repository. Today the updater tried to update 1.301 packages, install 150 new ones and remove 21, yet the UP5 hasn't been released yet. What's happening?

LexMK wrote:I have the regular LMDE, using the default repository. Today the updater tried to update 1.301 packages, install 150 new ones and remove 21, yet the UP5 hasn't been released yet. What's happening?

Update Pack 5 2012.09.17

I thought it wasn't released yet. Should check better next time. They usually post something on http://www.linuxmint.com/start/debian/ when a new version rolls out, this time they didn't. Or they're waiting the new .iso to post?

LexMK wrote:Today the updater tried to update 1.301 packages, install 150 new ones and remove 21, yet the UP5 hasn't been released yet.

Actually, it has been released. It's just the main linuxmint.com page that didn't get the last two posts from blog.linuxmint.com for some reason. So check http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2170 - this is the release announcement.

'Somewhere', I read yesterday where it was going to be a while before an ISO would be available. There was even a comment that it 'maybe' would not even be until UP6, dependent on what's happening there. I 'think' that's sort of what I read and I 'think' it was Clem speaking but I am really not sure, so don't take stock in that. I cannot remember if that was somewhere in this thread or another one.

I have also experienced font problems after UP5, mainly in chrome. These were solved after following this post. Long story short: put something in ~/.fonts.conf to adjust hinting and anti-aliasing. After restarting the session, everything is beautiful again.

EDIT: It may have something to do with bug 679523 which has been fixed only in the end of June. The updated package got to Testing only on the 1st of September (see the news section here), that's why we still have 2.88dsf-22.1 here in LMDE. Will probably have to wait for UP6.

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I just finished installing UP5, and this happened. There are only 2436 packages in the software manager and the window themes are all messed up. Also there's no reduce button, just the close window one. What happened? And how can I fix this?

I just finished installing UP5, and this happened. There are only 2436 packages in the software manager and the window themes are all messed up. Also there's no reduce button, just the close window one. What happened? And how can I fix this?

Did you install mint-meta-debian-cinnamon after upgrading ?

If not, do it.

And check that you have uninstalled mint-x-theme and installed mint-themes

If solution is that simple, then it's not a problem at all, but I wonder if LMDE team could make small additional package with such files/script to create symlinks automatically every update, or add it to some existing lmde-specific package.

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I just finished installing UP5, and this happened. There are only 2436 packages in the software manager and the window themes are all messed up. Also there's no reduce button, just the close window one. What happened? And how can I fix this?

Did you install mint-meta-debian-cinnamon after upgrading ?

If not, do it.

And check that you have uninstalled mint-x-theme and installed mint-themes

When I tried to install mint-meta-debian-cinnamon, this happened (Translated from Italian):

Some packages cannot be installed. This means that an impossible situation was requested or, if a distribution still in developmentis being used, that some of the requested packages are not created yet or were removed from Incoming.The following information may help to solve the problem:

The following packages have unsatisfied dependencies: mint-meta-debian-cinnamon : Dipende: aptoncd but cannot be installed Dipende: ttf-liberation but cannot be installed Dipende: xdg-user-dirs-gtk but cannot be installed Dipende: gnome-session-fallback but cannot be installed Dipende: gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 but cannot be installedE: Impossible fix this problem, there are blocked damaged packages.